From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS22989 209.51.188.0/24 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.9 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from lists.gnu.org (lists.gnu.org [209.51.188.17]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 307011F463 for ; Sat, 28 Dec 2019 22:40:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost ([::1]:46832 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ilKlL-0006iM-Na for normalperson@yhbt.net; Sat, 28 Dec 2019 17:40:47 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40125) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ilKlF-0006fs-0L for bug-gnulib@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Dec 2019 17:40:42 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ilKlD-0006VQ-HU for bug-gnulib@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Dec 2019 17:40:40 -0500 Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:45496) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ilKlB-00065u-Cw for bug-gnulib@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Dec 2019 17:40:38 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1490D1600F1; Sat, 28 Dec 2019 14:40:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id b6Pmv1RS3_NB; Sat, 28 Dec 2019 14:40:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60F3016018B; Sat, 28 Dec 2019 14:40:30 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id yP3tRayXVLBM; Sat, 28 Dec 2019 14:40:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.9] (cpe-23-242-74-103.socal.res.rr.com [23.242.74.103]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1C8551600F1; Sat, 28 Dec 2019 14:40:30 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: string types To: ag References: <175192568.e2XXTFFdkW@omega> <20191226221225.GA800@HATZ> <2179574.G9OhZXe8sF@omega> <20191228131438.GA797@HATZ> <1c20e1d7-33fa-292a-731f-d2e5b56acb6d@cs.ucla.edu> <20191228204400.GA789@HATZ> From: Paul Eggert Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <32f4558f-8826-59a3-ac9d-1fa1bac75076@cs.ucla.edu> Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2019 14:40:28 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.2.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20191228204400.GA789@HATZ> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: bug-gnulib@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Gnulib discussion list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Bruno Haible , =?UTF-8?Q?Tim_R=c3=bchsen?= , bug-gnulib@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnulib-bounces+normalperson=yhbt.net@gnu.org Sender: "bug-gnulib" On 12/28/19 12:44 PM, ag wrote: > is your opininion that this is adequate? > > typedef ptrdiff_t msize_t (m for memory here) Yes, something like that. dfa.c calls this type 'idx_t', which is a couple of characters shorter.